When The Nuclear Submarine USS San Francisco Crashed Into An Undersea Mountain
Launched in 1979, the USS San Francisco is the third American ship, boat or submarine to carry a title featuring San Francisco in the name. In…
60 Amazing Photos Of Operation Husky, The Amphibious Invasion Of Sicily In WWII
‘Operation Husky’ was the codename for the invasion of Sicily in 1943. The Operation began on the night of 9/10 July. It was a large amphibious and airborne operation,…
Lost ‘Nuke’ Bomb From The Cold War May Have Been Discovered Off The Coast Of British Columbia
Diver Sean Smyrichinsky thought at first he had discovered a UFO when he recently came across a strange object on the ocean bottom off British…
Project Acoustic Kitty – The CIA’s Top Secret Spy Cats Project
When Seal Team Six killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011, they did not do it alone. They had help from a Belgian Malinois dog named…
Lost ‘Nuke’ Bomb From The Cold War May Have Been Discovered Off The Coast Of British Columbia
Diver Sean Smyrichinsky thought at first he had discovered a UFO when he recently came across a strange object on the ocean bottom off British…
Shocking Footage Of Nukes Being Tested On Marines (Watch)
The most terrible weapon ever created is, of course, the nuclear bomb. During the Second World War, both the Allies and Nazi Germany were working…
In 1956, An Obsolete WW2 Drone Took on Two State-of-the-Art Manned Jet Fighters Over the US – And Won
In August 1956, a drone went rogue over Southern California, threatening cities, including Los Angeles. In its aftermath, over 1,000 acres were destroyed, forests and…
“Operation Crossroads: Lest We Forget!” – Review by Mark Barnes
This has been an incredibly busy year in which I have been attempting to wade through a phalanx of titles sent to me by the…
An Air Force Veteran Describes His Service Spanning Vietnam And The Cold War
War History online proudly presents this Guest Piece from Jeremy P. Ämick, who is a military historian and writes on behalf of the Silver Star…
Bikini Atoll, Used To Test Nukes Decades Ago, Is Still Too Radioactive To Start Resettling
Bikini Atoll, the string of islands that the U.S. used as nuclear testing grounds between 1946 and 1958, is still too radioactive to be inhabited.…
After 39 Soviet Commandoes Took Hill 3234 In Afghanistan, Not Even Hundreds Of Mujahedeen Could Dislodge Them
The Soviet-Afghan War, or the “Soviet Vietnam” as some political analysts called it, was one of the key points in which the decaying superpower came…
Retired US Warship Burgled For No Apparent Reason In Quincy, Massachusetts
Nothing is sacred it seems, not even a retired U.S. Navy cruiser, the USS Salem, laid down in 1945, at the tail end of the…